Vinyasa
Movement joined to breath.
Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Pema Lhamo
I opened this room because I could not find one where it was acceptable to be a beginner at forty.
Pema came to yoga at thirty-one, in a commercial studio in Lalitpur where she was, by a decade, the oldest person in the room and the only one who could not touch her toes. She stayed anyway, trained in Rishikesh three years later, and spent six years teaching classes of forty people whose names she never learned.
MAUNA opened in 2021 with two rooms, eleven mats and a policy that no class would ever be bigger than the teacher could remember. She writes the sequences the whole studio works from, teaches most weekday mornings, and still describes herself as a slow student.
She is the person to talk to about starting from nothing, about coming back after a long gap, and about whether a practice is worth keeping when you have stopped enjoying it.
- Teaching here since
- 2021
- Practising since
- 2009
- Hours taught
- 900+
- Languages
- Nepali, English, Tibetan
Training
- 500-hour Hatha and Vinyasa, Rishikesh
- Yin Yoga certification, 100 hours
- Trauma-informed teaching, 40 hours
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What Pema teaches
Pema’s week
Room
The Long Room — The main room, sixteen mats, windows along the east wall.
Before you come
You should be happy getting to the floor and back up.
Practice
Vinyasa, 60 minutes. Nothing. Mats, blocks and straps are here.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Garden Room — Ten mats, plants on every sill, warmer than the rest of the floor.
Before you come
No experience needed. Bring socks.
Practice
Yin, 75 minutes. Warm socks. You cool down when you stop moving.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Long Room — The main room, sixteen mats, windows along the east wall.
Before you come
The busiest hour of the week. Book ahead.
Practice
Vinyasa, 60 minutes. Nothing. Mats, blocks and straps are here.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Long Room — The main room, sixteen mats, windows along the east wall.
Before you come
Long holds. You may leave a shape early at any time.
Practice
Yin, 75 minutes. Warm socks. You cool down when you stop moving.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Long Room — The main room, sixteen mats, windows along the east wall.
Before you come
Sixty minutes exactly, so you can get back.
Practice
Vinyasa, 60 minutes. Nothing. Mats, blocks and straps are here.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Garden Room — Ten mats, plants on every sill, warmer than the rest of the floor.
Before you come
The last class of the working week, deliberately.
Practice
Yin, 75 minutes. Warm socks. You cool down when you stop moving.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Long Room — The main room, sixteen mats, windows along the east wall.
Before you come
Ninety minutes on Saturdays. Tea afterwards.
Practice
Vinyasa, 60 minutes. Nothing. Mats, blocks and straps are here.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
Room
The Long Room — The main room, sixteen mats, windows along the east wall.
Before you come
The only class on Sundays. Doors at eight.
Practice
Restorative, 60 minutes. Yourself. We will find you three blankets.
Taught by
Pema Lhamo — Founder · Vinyasa and Yin
The others
Sarita Manandhar
Restorative and Chair
Dinesh Rai
Breathwork and Meditation
Nima Tuladhar
Vinyasa · Newest teacher
Start here
Your first class costs nothing.
Pick an hour, tell us it is your first, and someone will meet you at the top of the stairs.
